Chapter Forty-Eight: Divide the Forces

As mentioned last time, Lü Jianjian took the initiative to shrink the scope of scouts' activities to increase the density of scouts per unit area and ensure that the scouts would not be completely suppressed by the Shu army.

"Hmm." Hearing this, Xu Huang stroked his beard and pondered.

"But we can't defeat them this way, we can only say that we are invincible. This time, most of the governors ordered us to be the vanguard, and gave us 20,000 horses, this Sima Lao'er is really interesting, the average pioneer is 5,000 people, 10,000 is already a lot, he actually sent 20,000 people at once, I don't know if he is interesting enough to the general or because he is afraid of Liu Chan, this kid.

No matter what he thinks, since he has given us so many soldiers and horses, we definitely can't live up to people's wishes. If our 20,000 men can't even handle the 2 or 3,000 people who came out to harass, then we can simply wipe our necks with knives. Xu Shangdao can see that he is a very kind person.

"It's to be invincible, this is just my first step, we must first be invincible, so that Liu Chan has no way to pull the turtle. There is also a second plan to ensure that Liu Chan's 2 or 3,000 people will not come. ”

"Oh? What else do you have to do? Hurry up. Xu Huang said.

"After the reconnaissance of the scouts these days, as well as the distribution range of the other party's scouts, we can roughly determine the range of the Shu army camp that may be camped." Lv Jiandao.

"Well, that's right, we analyzed this last time. It's just that the person who led the Shu army was obviously a cautious person, and it could be seen that he also moved the camp from time to time. We can only determine the approximate extent of it, and we can't know exactly where they are. Xu Huang said.

"This problem is not big, you must know that the camp is not stationed in any location, it must be based on the terrain, choose favorable terrain, be easy to defend and difficult to attack, have water sources and so on." Lu Jian explained that since all the generals present were experienced, he didn't give many examples, just briefly mentioned that Xu Huang and Xu Shang understood what he meant.

"Jian studied the map of the vicinity, combined with the news found by the scouts, and finally concluded that there are 4 places where the Shu army camp is most likely to be stationed, two near and two far away."

If Liu Hou knew that he was so cautious, sent so many scouts to intercept the enemy's scouts, and fully implemented the strategy of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, moved the nest in two or three days, and even sometimes changed the camp every day, the location of the camp was still so easy to be accurately deduced, and he would definitely break out in a cold sweat.

"You mean that our troops are divided into four routes and attack these four locations separately?" Xu Shang was not stupid, he immediately thought of a solution, and at the same time became excited.

"No, it's too unsafe to divide the troops into four routes, although the enemy may only have 2 or 3 thousand, but since the Metropolitan Governor gave us 20,000 soldiers and horses, it proves that he attaches great importance to the Shu Army, and the Metropolitan Governor is a wise man and will not be untargeted, since this is the case, it means that the Shu Army must have something that he needs our attention. Their thunderbolts, for example, are said to be powerful and terrifying. Therefore, we can't spread our forces too much, so as not to give the Shu army a chance.

I built yì, the soldiers are divided into two roads, 10,000 people on each road, and pounce on the nearest two camping points at the same time, if you don't meet the Shu army, and then pounce on the two camping points in the distance at the same time, so that in less than 3 days, we will definitely destroy the camp of the Shu army, and the victory will belong to us. Lu Jian said impassionedly.

"Well, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, 10,000 people per team, we give the Shu army a thunderous blow with 5 times the strength, there is no reason not to win, this plan is wonderful. Lu Jian, if you can win this battle, you should take the first credit. Xu Huang stood up and said with a red face.

I have to say that this Lu Jian, who is not well-known in the official history and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is indeed remarkable, maybe his exploits are attributed to Xu Huang, so he himself is not famous. Judging from his strategy this time, it is still very meritorious, and it may succeed in dealing with the traditional army.

However, what they had to face was not the traditional army, but Liu Houjia's firearms troops, which did not play cards with common sense. He miscalculated the military strength of the Shu army, in fact, he really can't be blamed for this, that general, when the army defending the city is still insufficient, will also divide half of the army to attack the field? It would be great to be able to divide 1 or 2 thousand to carry out a sneak attack and slow down the pace of the enemy's advance.

However, he didn't take into account that it would be Liu Chan, the son of the world, who would have led the troops, and he couldn't be blamed, who would have thought that the pampered prince of Hanzhong would lead the troops to battle at the age of 13, or this kind of extremely dangerous resistance battle that looks like hitting a stone with an egg. Therefore, he naturally didn't know that the generals of the Shu army were eager to give 10,000 people to Liu Hou to take away, so that they could have more military strength and increase the probability of the safety of the prince, and they would do whatever it took to do so.

And the second thing he miscalculated was that he miscalculated the combat effectiveness of the Shu army. This is the most fatal mistake, in fact, this cannot be blamed on him, in this world, there are not many people who have a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of firearms units, and naturally he is not included.

Since there is a mistake, it is natural to pay for this mistake, not to mention two mistakes

Liu Hou did not know that the enemy had found his nest and divided his troops to pounce on him, and he, Guan Xing, and Zhang Bao were watching the scout's training. It's not that the new scouts need to be trained, but the old scouts need to be trained as well, because the use of Thunderbolt is difficult to master.

Originally, in positional warfare, thunderbolts were known for their ease of use and simplicity, as long as they lit a fire and threw it at a place where there were many enemies, as long as they had great strength, fools would use it.

However, in cavalry warfare it is not so simple, the horses on both sides are moving at high speed, and they can enter or rush out of the explosion range in a few seconds, so it is necessary to calculate the explosion delay and place the Thunderbolt in advance where the enemy cavalry will pass.

It is indeed a technical job not to injure one's own people, but also to accurately kill and injure the enemy. This is only possible with careful calculation and repeated practice. When it comes to battle, the scouts only have a short time to make decisions, and the distance and speed of the two sides are visually measured, which is extremely inaccurate, so they can't really pick up a pen to calculate, and many times make decisions almost intuitively.

Keen intuition takes a lot of practice, so even though the scouts are tired, Liu Hou stipulates that they must participate in training once a day to improve the accuracy of bomb throwing. Fortunately, the scouts carried enough thunderbolts, and they could also use the method of increasing the minelaying area to increase the success rate of the strike.

"We've been spending a lot of time in this area, so we can't go on like this. This is still the vanguard of the Wei army, and if the Chinese army of the Wei army arrives, we will have nowhere to escape if we want to. Guan Xing raised his concerns worriedly.

"I've been thinking about this for the past two days, now we can't move forward, and we're unwilling to retreat, alas, this Xu Huang is really not an idle person, I didn't expect him to be so willing to spend money to go to the scout team, so many days, we didn't detect his big camp stationed there. If it doesn't work, let's pull out the camp and leave, I always feel that something is wrong. Liu Houdao.

"Big brother, third brother, what are you afraid of, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, with me Zhang Bao here, I guarantee that they will die one by one, and two will die with a pair." Zhang Bao patted his chest and said.

"Of course you're not afraid of two, but what if people come with 20,000?" Liu Hounuo teased.

"Twenty thousand is not afraid, and you don't know the combat power of our musketeers. 20,000 is just 4 shots per person. Zhang Bao said with a big grin.

"It's so easy to fight a war, not to mention how many hits your musketeers have, and people are not pigs, they will stand there and let you shoot targets, even pigs will run around. The hit rate is even lower when hitting a moving target. Xu Huang is also a veteran of the battlefield, will people stupidly only charge at you head-on and let you be a target?

People have a lot of soldiers, won't they divide their troops to attack your flanks or even the rear? Not to mention that there are multiple tactics such as ambushes, night raids, etc., that can be applied. Even if we don't talk about this, they still have shields to block bullets, and crossbow arrows to fight us se. So, don't think that a few thousand musketeers are invincible. In front of these battlefield veterans, we are nothing. ”

Liu Hou reprimanded Zhang Bao fiercely. He himself was also very depressed, and in the past few days, the scouts had seized many shields of the Wei army scouts, and found that their shields were not cowhide cards or rattan cards, but were made of thick wooden boards, and some of them were even inlaid with iron sheets on the outer layer.

Although the shield inlaid with iron plates is cumbersome, it can completely block the spur shot of the musket lead bullet, although after a few shots, this kind of shield will also be broken, but this is enough to make Liu Hou break out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, he also saw that even the elite of the so-called elite of the scout team of the Wei army was not equipped with this kind of iron shield, and it was conceivable that the proportion of ordinary sergeants with this kind of shield could only be smaller, which made him feel a little relieved.

But this finally reminded him that musketeers are not invincible in the world, and it is not that there are no means to restrain musketeers in this world, so you must destroy the enemy before they come to their senses, otherwise you will have to work hard.

Don't look at the victory of his scout team now, and his intuition tells him that a huge crisis is approaching him. Liu Hou decided that in another day, he would have to retreat and transfer anyway, and this transfer could not be like some time ago, just moving nearby, but a real transfer, a transfer of retreating dozens of miles back.

Early the next morning, the Shu army was pulling out the camp and preparing to transfer, and Liu Hou was still packing his things when he received a return from the scouts, and the Wei army had a new movement.

The Wei army seemed to have divided its forces, and the troops were divided into two routes, marching in two directions, and one of them was rushing towards their camp. As the Wei army began to march, the scout barrier could no longer block the scout infiltration of the Shu army, and the movements of the Wei army were finally exposed to Liu Hou.

For this sudden situation, Liu Hou did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly found Guo Youzhi and others to discuss countermeasures.

"It is estimated that Xu Huang can't hold his breath anymore and wants to find our main force to fight with us. They are divided into two ways because they feel that each of them has the strength to defeat us. "Guo Youzhi.

"How we found our camp is unknown, perhaps a missed scout broke into our camp. But why did they divide their forces? Could it be that they are deliberately confusing us, when in fact the other group is trying to go around in circles and steal us from behind? Guo Youzhi continued to analyze. Although he is also a smart man, it is impossible for him to think through everything, just like Wei Jun's behavior this time, he can't fully understand it.

So what do we do? Do you hit it head-on or do you turn around and leave? What is everyone's opinion? Liu Houdao.

"What else is there to discuss, beat him." Zhang Bao, as always, issued his violent manifesto.

"I also think that we can fight them this time. It's rare that they are divided into two ways and give us this great opportunity. With 10,000 of them against our 5,000 musketeers, we should be able to win easily. We only need to guarantee two things."